12,000 people...this is the number of tourists who visited Antartica in 2000....35,000...that's the figures for this 2007-2008 season...and I'm one of the few lucky ones. And number of people who went for a little dip of snorkeling...on the Luybov Orlova...I'm the first for the last 6 years that the expedition leader remember! Twelve months ago, I was saying, Antartica, it's a trip that I'll take one day. But it's so bloody expensive! I was thinking at the time, this trip, is something you do for a wedding anniversary...because paying it for two, is more than a fortune. Guess what, it was 12 months ago, and today, I write this from the middle of the Drake Passage, on my way to Antartica...because one of the joy of being single, is that you pay only for one, and
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